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I know that's a charming image to face over your Saturday morning coffee, but I couldn't help myself. You see while some TreeHuggers get crazy traffic writing about LED light bulbs, or silly names for whales, I must resort to revealing

Water stories have a strange ability to create a deluge across the world's media. Last month it was the village of Bundanoon who voted to become Australia's First Bottled Water Free Town. Now it's a Brazilian environment group, SOS Mata Atlantica, who

It's easy to ignore, that little ripple of water in your toilet tank that you think might be a leak, but you don't have time and you're really not sure. The next time you pop a squat, there it is again, mocking you,

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Peeing in Public Saves Water - But is it Gross?
I seem to be in the habit of sharing my bathroom habits with the world - whether it's the Selective Flush or the Navy Shower. (Perhaps worryingly) people seem to

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Hygenic, Biodegradable Single-use Toilets for the Developing World
It's no great secret that sanitation and clean drinking water are major challenges in much of the world. But, like the Life Straw or Freeplay's self-powered

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Whether it's quilted, cottony-soft or recycled, toilet paper still has a long way to go before it eschews the dubious honour of being an ubiquitous symbol of a wasteful society. So it's always a good idea to: a) not use too much; b) to get

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Do Carbon Labels Facilitate Better Choices?
I've already written about Greenpeace claims that soft toilet paper is worse than Hummers, but now UK

Greenpeace Spoofs Kleenex Ads
When I wrote about Greenpeace's assertion that soft toilet roll may be worse than Hummers, the post attracted a good deal of traffic. But of course it's not just folks wiping their butts on ancient forest that we have to

There used to be a big debate about which is better-paper or plastic bags; now we know the answer is neither- bring your own. Perhaps the debate going on now about virgin vs recycled toilet paper is similar- the best solution is to use

We've all been in bathroom stalls where poetry (at least by a loose definition) has littered the walls. But who'd have thought that poetry in the potty could make you use less toilet paper? A study by the research

While they design the faucets and fixtures that bring the water to you in style, they don't think that wasting water should be part of the design. So, Kohler, maker of ???, has launched their Save Water America campaign to educate

We know that some men have bad bathroom habits (women too). But it has come to our attention that a few of these social no-no's, might actually be good for the environment, at least to some degree. Our question is, at what

Thermostat Chicken King
In the game of thermostat chicken, Turboglacier is holding a lead. The blogger from Portland, Maine, has not yet turned on the heating. The "crackpot" title relates to Turboglacier's penchant for musing on

We spend a lot of time worrying about the design of our foreground buildings like art galleries, but give almost no thought at all to the prosaic, basic needs that every city should supply, particularly to those who are not in cars. So if you are a

Long-awaited in New York City is the "environmentally conscious" Greenhouse Nightclub on Varick Street in New York City's Soho neighborhood, which had a "soft" opening last week. Greenhouse comes right on the heels of GustOrganic, the first "100%" USDA